My family were probably fieldhands or stable boys. I've been tested and I have one of the Basque markers.
Posted on 04/21/2009 8:00:17 AM PDT by decimon
Men are needed for DNA tests to prove their distant ancestors moved from the Mediterranean to north west Wales as migrant workers 4,000 years ago.
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The researchers are building on previous work carried out in the area which found a much higher-than-average presence of a DNA marker that is commonly found in people from the Balkans and Spain.
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My mother’s family was mostly Welsh. Myers, no less. As I understand it, the Smith of Wales.
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My family were probably fieldhands or stable boys. I've been tested and I have one of the Basque markers.
R1b, N checking in.
You're the one? I knew there had to be someone derived of who cleaned the stables. ;-)
Yeah, but we got lucky now and then. Where do you think your G-G-grandma got those green eyes?
R1b, V checking in. What is your DYS390 nunber? Mine is 23 which indicates I'm a Dane (maybe a Viking) who went to Ireland and stayed.
I don’t think I paid extra for that one. There are a couple of levels I haven’t bought yet.
I was wrong. I’m a 24. Where do you find out what that means? Probably means Welsh stableboy.
It means you are a long-time Brit...an original.
We (you and I, R1b's) left the Ice Age Refuge in Iberia quickly after the end of the Ice Age and you made your way to the British Isles by boat. My people, made their way to Scandanavia by land (where the 23 marker originates) and later by boat to the British Isles. 75% of the DNA in the British Isles is ancient.The western coasts have levels of DYS390-24 as high as 90%.
My dad's mother (Mrs Smith, mtDNA U5a) is related to this (Cheddar Man) 9,000 year old guy.
I rest my case. I have no known 1st or 2nd degree relatives with anything other than O positive blood type. My Y DNA clan matched very high with the Basques and Iberians.
That’s generally the case, that surnames indicate association with a place rather than some big-shot noble house. My German great-grandparents met when both worked for some baron’s household.
"And what of the Celts we know – the Irish, Scots and Welsh? Scholars have traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe, but Oppenheimer’s new data clearly show that the Welsh, Irish and other Atlantic fringe peoples derive from Ice Age refuges in the Basque country and Spain. They came by an Atlantic coastal route many thousands of years ago, though the Celtic languages we know of today were brought in by later migrations, following the same route, during Neolithic times."
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